Four Generations I

Mardi 27 septembre 2005

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Montréal, Tuesday September 27th 2005 — Bozzini Quartet is proud to present the
first event of its sixth Montréal season, which features an exclusively Quebec and Canadian
repertoire, establishing parallels between the works of young creators and those of composers at
the height of their career. For the fourth year in a row, the four musicians are back at the
Chapelle Saint-Louis in Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church on October 13th 2005,
at 8:00pm, for the first of their chamber recitals. In the October 13th
programme: LeBlanc, Frigon, Sokolović, Brady, and Tenney.

Bozzini Quartet has explored with pleasure James Tenney’s early works. Composed respectively
when he was 21 and 29 years old, String Quartet (in one movement) reveals magnificent
writing for strings, while Stochastic Quartet shows harmonic and rhythmic complexities.
Also an early work, Tim Brady’s Quatuor no. 1 will be heard for the second time since
1982. Large clusters, complex counterpoint, and a palette of textures are this ultra-modern piece’s
signature. Inspired by the pictorial universe of Guido Molinari, Blanc dominant by Ana
Sokolović opens a world of nuances; wit, irony, humour, lyricism, and folklore are called upon.
Representing the fourth generation, Jimmie LeBlanc proposes a music that takes its basic material
from a chorus by pop-rock band Smashing Pumpkins. The Breaking of the Circle is also the
title of a fictional book in a Göran Tunstöm novel, telling of how the world as we know it was born
of a primordial fault-line. The last piece in the programme, L’Écho des ondes, is a
creation by Montréal composer Michel Frigon. Written for Bozzini Quartet, the piece glides in a
subtle universe of shimmering reflections, luminosities, and oscillations. A must…

Upcoming Events

Release of Bozzini Quartet’s second recording, Steve Reich, Different Trains, in the
collection qb under the DAME label, Fall 2005.

Concert in Quebec City: Four Generations I programme, November 1st 2005 at the Chapelle du
Bon-Pasteur. Recorded by Radio-Canada’s Espace Musique

Germany: a Südwestrundfunk Ars Nova radio series concert; pieces from
Portrait Montréal, the first CD of the Quartet (Claude Vivier, Jean Lesage, Malcolm
Goldstein, and Michael Oesterle)

Switzerland: four concerts in Aarrau and Gruesch

Concert in collaboration with guitarist and composer Bernard Falaise, March
31st 2006 at Théâtre La Chapelle

“Salon des Compositeurs” and “Composer’s Kitchen”, second edition, May 1st through 6th 2006

Programme of Canadian compositions to be confirmed

Bozzini Quartet

Moving freely between avant-garde events and traditional concerts, Bozzini
Quartet, “Discovery of the Year” at the Prix Opus 2001, plays about forty concerts per
year. Dedicated to music as universal language, these four young artists communicate an aesthetic
that transcends the tastes of any particular era or musical tradition: music famous and unknown,
familiar and strange, old and new. They especially enjoy collaborating with living composers,
premiering quartets by Christian Wolff, Michael Oesterle, Malcolm Goldstein, Gerald Barry, Tom
Johnson, Jean Lesage, and many others.